For All Your Dead Body Disposal Needs

[Mulboyne]

Well, it's actually a rescue robot used by the Tokyo Fire Department. More here and here.

[Kuang_Grade]

Here at the Solyent Corporation, we employ the lastest in high tech harvesting methods to ensure the gentle handling of our foodstock materials.

[Greji]

Originally Posted by Mulboyne

Well, it's actually a rescue robot used by the Tokyo Fire Department. More here and here.

If it wraps them after it bales them, we may now know what was used on that FG floater that showed up off the dock the other day! A great new device for Blinky and crew. I can already see the CMs: "Handle your FG problem yourself! Simple and convenient, a little baling wire and our new technology makes your problems go away. Batteries not included!"

[Tsuru]

How the hell is that thing supposed to work besides being able to pick up a dead body from a level street? Can it move a body from under 500 million tons of rubble when the "big one" hits? Can it drive up stairs and into buildings? Can it do CPR? Can it even pick up people that aren't wearing shirts or sweaters?

This looks like a really good way for a lot of people to lose their lives when this stupid thing takes 5 hours to unload and ready itself for deployment, only to be fazed by the first door. It's the size of a fucking truck for Buddha's sake!

If I was in their management I'd tell them to get back to fucking work. Spend the taxpayer's money on better training instead of this sorry shit. Firefighting takes guts and will always be the work of people because no situation is the same. The only thing robots are good for in an emergency situation is disarming bombs.

@ Kuang: thanks for the laugh

[GuyJean]

They already make those...



GJ

[Blah Pete]

Great tool if you pass out in the parking lot while drinking. Will the robot take you all the way home and place you gently on your bed so you can sleep it off?
At 1.74m wide and 3.860Kg where do they expect to use it?

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Tsuru

How the hell is that thing supposed to work besides being able to pick up a dead body from a level street? Can it move a body from under 500 million tons of rubble when the "big one" hits? Can it drive up stairs and into buildings? Can it do CPR? Can it even pick up people that aren't wearing shirts or sweaters?

Obviously this is intended for incidents like the sarin attack in the subways.

Obviously they didn't think too hard about that.

[den4]

Looks like the woman in the green sweater and umbrella in the bottom photo just can't wait to get her hands on her rations of Soylent Green....

[Mulboyne]

It seems they held a full drill with these things last year:

On November 7, approximately 1,000 members of the Metropolitan Police Department, Tokyo Fire Department, and Japan Self-Defense Force gathered at Tokyo Big Sight to participate in a field training exercise simulating the explosion of a radiation-emitting terrorist bomb. At this first drill of its kind in Japan, the Tokyo Fire Department’s unmanned rescue robots and the NBC reconnaissance vehicles of the Japan Self-Defense Force were among the sophisticated equipment used. Exercises included triage, to sort out the injured according to the severity of their condition, and decontamination.